{"id":2721,"date":"2009-01-08T09:43:15","date_gmt":"2009-01-08T16:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/in-which-i-throw-my-shoe-at-jim-scarantino\/"},"modified":"2009-01-08T09:46:58","modified_gmt":"2009-01-08T16:46:58","slug":"in-which-i-throw-my-shoe-at-jim-scarantino","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/in-which-i-throw-my-shoe-at-jim-scarantino\/","title":{"rendered":"In Which I Throw My Shoe at Jim Scarantino"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jim Scarantino has tried hard to fill the void left with by the departure from New Mexico of John Dimdahl, that paragon of rightwingnuttery. Today, Jim explains the dark side of progressives (using a Nobel laureate to defend his views). Let\u2019s listen in:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>As Nobel laureate Friedrich Hayek has shown [mjh: beyond any doubt!], progressives have <strong>always<\/strong> had a regrettable dark side. \u2026 [I]n their push to transform society, progressives frequently show an <strong>eagerness<\/strong> to employ the <strong>coercive<\/strong> powers&nbsp; of the state against individuals and individual rights that inconvenience their agenda.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Hmmm. Does he mean things like forcing you to take your shoes off before boarding a plane? Is Jim referring to the database record that includes your Facebook page and Amazon purchases? Or is he thinking of the hundreds of people imprisoned for years without a trial, often wrongly? Oh, those damn Progressives. No, wait, that was the Conservatives! Sorry, Jim. <\/p>\n<p>Human beings of every stripe have a regrettable dark side. Conservatives have <em>always<\/em> worn theirs on their sleeves. peace, mjh<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jim Scarantino has tried hard to fill the void left with by the departure from New Mexico of John Dimdahl, that paragon of rightwingnuttery. Today, Jim explains the dark side of progressives (using a Nobel laureate to defend his views). Let\u2019s listen in: As Nobel laureate Friedrich Hayek has shown [mjh: beyond any doubt!], progressives &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/in-which-i-throw-my-shoe-at-jim-scarantino\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">In Which I Throw My Shoe at Jim Scarantino<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-nada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}